[jdev] a notification system

[Bob Wyman]

Mark Cantrell wrote:
> Is Jabber a good protocol for building a 
> notification system around?   
	Jabber/XMPP should do just fine as a notification system. Your
best bet would be to implement something based on JEP-0060
(http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0060.html).

> The components may also do their own timely polling,
> instead of waiting around for an event to  
> arrive.
	If you want to do polling, then just use HTTP. However, if
"notifications" is really what you want, since most notifications are
time-sensitive, you should probably use Jabber PubSub (JEP-0060)
instead.

		bob wyman